Remembrance Sunday services held

Hundreds of people gathered at the war memorial in Watts Park, Southampton.

Thousands of people have turned out across the South to pay their respects at Remembrance Sunday events for those who have lost their lives in war.

At 1100 GMT a naval gunshot from HMS Nelson sounded in Portsmouth as a two-minute silence fell across the UK.

Wreathes were laid at war memorials and public buildings in Hampshire, Dorset, Berkshire and Oxfordshire, as young and old stood side-by-side together.

The Queen laid the first wreath at the Cenotaph memorial in central London.

Marching parades

In Southampton hundreds gathered at the war memorial in Watts Park where the Last Post was heard to mark the two-minute silence.

Wreaths were laid at three services in the New Forest at St Matthews Parish Church, in Netley Marsh; St Michaels and All Angels Church in Lyndhurst; and at St Luke's Parish Church, Sway.

Gosport Silver Band provided the service music at Gosport's War Memorial Hospital, with the guard provided by HMS Sultan and Vice Admiral Sir Roy Newman.

In Dorset a parade was held in Bournemouth from the town hall to the War Memorial in the gardens.

Events were also held in Poole Park, Poole; and in Christchurch, a parade travelled from the mayor's parlour to the Priory.

Wreaths were also laid in Bracknell, Berkshire, at the war memorial in the town centre; and in Windsor, the mayor, councillor Jesse Grey, led the Act of Remembrance at the war memorial in the High Street.

Meanwhile the main remembrance parade in Reading was held at the TA Centre in Brock Barracks.

Across Oxfordshire events were held in Abingdon, where the mayor, Patrick Lonergan, led the service of remembrance in the parish church.

At Didcot, a parade went from Edinburgh Drive and up Broadway to the war memorial behind the Civic Hall, where the Act of Remembrance was held.